crossterm VS autopy

Compare crossterm vs autopy and see what are their differences.

crossterm

Cross platform terminal library rust (by crossterm-rs)

autopy

A simple, cross-platform GUI automation module for Python and Rust. (by autopilot-rs)
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crossterm autopy
28 2
2,926 800
3.2% 2.1%
7.1 2.8
4 days ago 8 months ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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crossterm

Posts with mentions or reviews of crossterm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

autopy

Posts with mentions or reviews of autopy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
  • Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
    Reciprocally, it's just amazing how much better AutoHotKey is at scripting the computer is than everything else is. The language was clearly never the reason why AHK persisted.

    There's works like AutoPy (https://github.com/autopilot-rs/autopy) and AutoPilot-rs (https://github.com/autopilot-rs/autopilot-rs), but they offer like 1/100th the capabilities AHK does.

    Personally I think this kind of computer-control is the perfect environment for teaching computing. Rather than writing apps or webapps, I feel like the idea of just writing code to do what you the user would do anyways, but better, is a fantastic introduction to computing & programming. In my ideal world, we'd have an EVE Online server that specifically re-enables the game-client's python interpretter (and periodically does total wipes), so folks can learn to program by scripting not just their desktop, but a complex & interesting game, via it's rich api.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crossterm and autopy you can also consider the following projects:

Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion

tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

pancurses - A Rust curses library, supports Unix platforms and Windows

enigo - Cross platform input simulation in Rust

fui - Add CLI & form interface to your program. Docs: https://docs.rs/fui

bearlibterminal - BearLibTerminal FFI for Rust

rustgenhash - CLI tool written in Rust which can be used to generate hashes

nfd2 - OS native dialogs for Windows, MacOS, and Linux

ratatui - Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs)

Cloaker - Simple, drag-and-drop, password-based file encryption

tui-input - TUI input library supporting multiple backends, tui-rs and ratatui

terminal-typeracer